One way to get around Vault's dreadful slowness

[Bricky]

We all, I am sure, hate the way Vault slows our highly spec'd computers down 'till they go about as quick as an XT. Well here's a way I often use that gets around the problem.
Load your model at the highest level then in the Vault browser, check it out including all the children. Now log off Vault...your computer will operate unhindered by all that unnecessary real time file status checking. When you finish the edits, save locally, log back to Vault then check the files in, remembering to tick the box 'close and delete all files'.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like a good idea. I'll be trying it shortly as I'm about to slash my
wrists dealing with Vault's constant updating, along with the Server
Busy/Retry dialog. Do you have many users on Inventor working on the same
project concurrently? Just curious if this would cause any issues other
than nothing being available for anyone else to work on. Thanks for the
tip!

wrote in message news:5169386@discussion.autodesk.com...
We all, I am sure, hate the way Vault slows our highly spec'd computers down
'till they go about as quick as an XT. Well here's a way I often use that
gets around the problem.
Load your model at the highest level then in the Vault browser, check it out
including all the children. Now log off Vault...your computer will operate
unhindered by all that unnecessary real time file status checking. When you
finish the edits, save locally, log back to Vault then check the files in,
remembering to tick the box 'close and delete all files'.

[Anonymous]

Jim and Bricky:

I'd like to find out more about what is going on with your data and
environment profile that is causing this slowness. Can you please email me
directly at jeffrey(dot)curran(at)autodesk.com I'm also interested in the
"Server Busy" message.

-jeff


"Jim Hagarty" wrote in message
news:5169943@discussion.autodesk.com...
Sounds like a good idea. I'll be trying it shortly as I'm about to slash my
wrists dealing with Vault's constant updating, along with the Server
Busy/Retry dialog. Do you have many users on Inventor working on the same
project concurrently? Just curious if this would cause any issues other
than nothing being available for anyone else to work on. Thanks for the
tip!

wrote in message news:5169386@discussion.autodesk.com...
We all, I am sure, hate the way Vault slows our highly spec'd computers down
'till they go about as quick as an XT. Well here's a way I often use that
gets around the problem.
Load your model at the highest level then in the Vault browser, check it out
including all the children. Now log off Vault...your computer will operate
unhindered by all that unnecessary real time file status checking. When you
finish the edits, save locally, log back to Vault then check the files in,
remembering to tick the box 'close and delete all files'.

[Bricky]

Jim,.....We are not a large organisation. We have at any one time only about 5 people working on the same project. It's easy in our office to apply the method I use to get around Vault's slowness because we are all on the same site. I just talk to the people involved, tell them I am checking the work out, roughly what I intend doing to it and that I'm logging off Vault then go for it!!...it works well. And we find the spin-off is that you tend to communicate better with your team regarding the project.

By-the-way we too suffer the constant interruption of the Server Busy/Retry dialogue. We thought it might be a server issue but when we installed the new server it is still there. But it's not, of course if you work off line.

Happy Inventoring,
Tafola

[Anonymous]

Well I'm glad to hear I'm not alone! I had someone in this DG tell me it
may be a cabling issue. I've checked our cabling and believe everything is
fine there. Thanks again for the tip!

Jim


wrote in message news:5170941@discussion.autodesk.com...
Jim,.....We are not a large organisation. We have at any one time only about
5 people working on the same project. It's easy in our office to apply the
method I use to get around Vault's slowness because we are all on the same
site. I just talk to the people involved, tell them I am checking the work
out, roughly what I intend doing to it and that I'm logging off Vault then
go for it!!...it works well. And we find the spin-off is that you tend to
communicate better with your team regarding the project.

By-the-way we too suffer the constant interruption of the Server Busy/Retry
dialogue. We thought it might be a server issue but when we installed the
new server it is still there. But it's not, of course if you work off line.

Happy Inventoring,
Tafola

[Anonymous]

Tafola,

One more question....do you check out the whole project directly from Vault
or open the highest level assembly from within Inventor and then checkout
from Inventor? It would be much quicker to checkout from Vault and I can't
think of any reason this workflow shouldn't work. My main assembly on this
project is probably approaching 10K parts and opening even once in a while
is, well, painful.

Jim

wrote in message news:5170941@discussion.autodesk.com...
Jim,.....We are not a large organisation. We have at any one time only about
5 people working on the same project. It's easy in our office to apply the
method I use to get around Vault's slowness because we are all on the same
site. I just talk to the people involved, tell them I am checking the work
out, roughly what I intend doing to it and that I'm logging off Vault then
go for it!!...it works well. And we find the spin-off is that you tend to
communicate better with your team regarding the project.

By-the-way we too suffer the constant interruption of the Server Busy/Retry
dialogue. We thought it might be a server issue but when we installed the
new server it is still there. But it's not, of course if you work off line.

Happy Inventoring,
Tafola